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Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… there was more connection between local and regional level. Other work we are doing – the SENTINEL project – is looking at national level … up needing to take out a loan.  At household level the farmer must work out these trade-offs. Their deliberations can be influenced by … having to borrow money. I hadn’t realised it was so bad – and our research area wasn’t in the poorest part of the country – there are …
Article, 17 February 2020
Should public money from Europe used to build wind farms, such as this one in Mulan, around 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang, China, constitute official development assistance? (Photo: Land Rover Our Planet, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Development finance and climate finance: achieving zero poverty and zero emissions
Insight, 01 June 2015
Cover for G01751.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 8 Participatory self-evaluation of World Neighbors, Burkina Faso
… It shows how in Mali, Togo, Ghana and Burkina Faso. Key areas of work are in accordance with monitoring, evaluation and participatory … strengthen the capacities programme. This article describes briefly our of marginalised communities so that they can annual evaluation …
Publication, 01 January 1998
MMSD – Assurance Group and project information
… Documents are grouped together in the links below, or you can search our Publications Library . Please contact us if you can't find what you … Third Assurance Group meeting: Santaigo, Chile – annexes 5 and 6, work group presentations Third Assurance Group meeting: Santaigo, Chile – annexes 7-9, work group presentations Fourth Assurance Group meeting: Johannesburg, …
Article, 04 March 2009
Markets for the poor: the gap between theory and practice
… développement (IRAM), heard that when it comes to explaining reality, our theories and analyses can often fall short. Tales of the unexpected … Two speakers shared their experience of trying to make markets work for the poor in the developing world. Olivier Renard from IRAM … incomes for local farmers. But in practice, things didn’t quite work out like that. Attracting big companies to invest in processing …
Article, 06 April 2011
Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
… to ensure that the experiences of rural populations who live and work around the dams are taken into account. Largely taxpayer-funded, … the agricultural schemes and support the smallholder farmers who work on them has also affected production. Hydropower on the other hand … and tools for evaluating the economic impact of large dams. Our guidelines recommend this approach, supporting good infrastructure …
News, 25 March 2015
Guinea's Kaleta dam was completed by a Chinese company in 2015, ending chronic power shortages in the capital city, Conakry (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)
How a new ECOWAS directive could change the way dams are built and managed in West Africa
… in West Africa are implemented.  June of this year saw this ambitious work come to fruition with ECOWAS adopting a major new policy directive. … front and centre when implementing large dam projects. Through my work at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) … with local communities affected by the dam project (as explained in our recent animation ), and Generalising strategic environmental …
Insight, 08 August 2017
Cover for G00287.pdf
IIED VALUES STATEMENT 22nd January 2001
… IIED stands for 3. Organisational values, guiding how IIED does its work and relates to others 4. Associated commitments that IIED will make … sustainable development. They motivate IIED staff, they underlie our work, and we aim to uphold and promote them: Freedom to express, inquire …
Publication, 01 January 2001
Cover for G01749.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Tracking change together
… to ensure that money is well spent and that objectives and methods. Our overview draws on the are met. Besides this conventional focus on … evaluation for internal learning What is PM&E? and to improve their work. They see that, for maximum benefits, learning needs to happen … with diverse groups and people. As with other areas of participatory work, Many of these organisations already work with PM&E has a huge …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Cover for G01753.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 10 Growing from the grassroots: building participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation methods in PARC
… approach to Committees, PARC, is a Palestinian NGO with monitor our rural work. almost two decades of experience working in Participation under …
Publication, 01 January 1998